[queuebert]

There are three kinds of people in my experience:

1. bzip2 -1

2. bzip2 -9

3. What's bzip2?

A huge amount of time is spent optimizing for #3. Maybe instead we should offer descriptive commands that convey the goals. Say, "squash", "speedup", and "deflate", or some such.

[Shish2k]

I think I grok bzip2 fairly well, but I can’t figure out what your descriptive commands would actually do :S